I. Hate. Black. History. Month. And I’m hopeful, that in time, you will come to hate it too!
"In "Becoming Multilingual," part 2 of my column, "¡Aguacate! Bringing Up Bebe Bilingüe," I use autoethnography as a writing approach to capture and represent the personal experiences of myself, a qualitative researcher, who has become the researched."
Zona. I have always thought that names of diseases sound so beautiful. This is the story of a disease that lives with me.
"From dancing at New York’s Metropolitan Opera to the Cow Palace in San Francisco, every venue taught me valuable lessons."
is an essay about the way technology can intrude and obscure what may be our most important human experiences
In this new issue from The AutoEthnographer, we introduce new features such as book reviews and autoethnographic art.
On Emerging Liberated of the Glass Box Author’s Memo Like many others in the American South, I began my teens...
My weird depression showed up this summer like “hey sis!” And I was like “fuck my life”! I wasn’t ready. This time, it caught me off guard.
This work, a narrative and poetic account of a school shooting, provides an experiential entry into the experience from the point of view of a faculty member.
In this 2nd of my Processing Parental Grief series, Calliandra receives a letter from her mother weeks after her death.
Laurel Richardson and U. Melissa Anyiwo·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysCelebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024Reflections on Method
··14 min readLaurel Richardson and U. Melissa Anyiwo writes the introduction to this special issue celebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy’s work.
"While living in Ecuador, I wrote “Home” which essentially is an homage to the “third-culture kid” phenomenon, when your parents are from another country than the one you grew up in."